1998 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Multi-Ilinguistic Neuronal Processing : fMRI Study
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09044275
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for international Scientific Research
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | Joint Research |
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| Research Field |
Neuroscience in general
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| Research Institution | Niigata University |
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Principal Investigator |
NAKADA Tsutomu Niigata University, Brain Research Institute, Professor, 脳研究所, 教授 (50281720)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
YUKIHIKO Fujii Niigata University, Brain Research Institute Associate Professor, 脳研究所, 助教授 (40283014)
SOMA Yoshiaki Niigata University, Brain Research Institute Associate Professor, 脳研究所, 助教授 (30163132)
SORENSON Gre ハーバード大学, 準教授
ROSEN Bruce R Harvard University, Radiology-MGH,Associate Professor, 準教授
KNIGHT Robert T. University of California, Center for Neuroscience, Professor, 教授
SORENSEN Gregory Harvard University, Radiology-MGH,Assistant Professor
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| Project Period (FY) |
1997 – 1998
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| Keywords | Multi-linguistics / Neuronal Processing / functional MRI |
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| Research Abstract |
The project is designed based on long-standing collaboration efforts between the principle investigator, who himself has been a faculty member of University of California for over 18 years, and investigators at University of California (Cognitive Neuroscience) and Harvard University (Magnetic Resonance). The specific aim of the project is to identify specific neuronal substrates involved in multilinguistic (English vs. Japanese) language processing in the human brain. The project has yielded a hitherto unrecognized fact that the neuroanatomical substrates underlying the cognitive processing of reading are differentially determined by the language system in which literacy is first acquired and are independent of ethnic background. Furthermore, it has clearly demonstrated that reading in the second language represents an extension of the primary language. Its cognitive processing involves the same cortical structures as those utilized for the primary language.
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